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How CDC Uses False Fears to Promote Vaccine Uptake by Dr. Mercola

How CDC Uses False Fears to Promote Vaccine Uptake

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By Dr. Mercola
Five years ago, political lobbyist Jack Abramoff
shocked the nation when, in a 60-Minute Report, he revealed just how
corrupt the U.S. political system really is. As it turns out, it's
actually worse than most critical outsiders could have imagined.
Now, the downfall of yet another high-powered corporate lobbyist is
shedding light on tactics used to promote drug industry interests.
Other recent news reveals how the CDC uses scare tactics to
incentivize people into getting an annual flu shot — despite studies
repeatedly showing that flu shots have been from zero to less than 50
percent effective in preventing type A or B influenza over the past
decade.1
For this flu season, the CDC estimates the vaccine has failed about
60 percent of the time to prevent infection with the most prevalent A
strain circulating this year.2

The Rise and Fall of a Roche VP

In "The Rise and Fall of a K Street Renegade," published in The Wall Street Journal,3
Brody Mullins details the suspected wrongdoings of Evan Morris, who at
age 27 became a top Washington lobbyist for Roche Holdings AG, one of
the largest drug companies in the world.
In July, 2015, he came under federal investigation, suspected of
embezzling millions of company dollars through various schemes. Part of
Morris' genius was his ability to capitalize on and shape public
sentiment through the use of media, advertising, opinion polls, focus
groups and the creation of front groups.
According to Mullins, "He sponsored nonprofits that engaged in
letter-writing campaigns and organized patient groups that demanded
Medicare reimbursement for his firm's drugs."
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considered banning
the cancer drug Avastin, Morris created the non-profit group, Patient
Care Action Network. Morris recruited doctors and patients who then did
Morris' work for him, urging their congressional representatives to
oppose the FDA.

How Morris Turned Tamiflu Into a Blockbuster Drug

In the article, Mullins also reveals how Morris made Roche's influenza drug Tamiflu into a massive blockbuster by seeding and feeding public fear during the 2005 avian flu outbreak:

"Roche produced the leading treatment, a pill called Tamiflu.
Sensing opportunity, Mr. Morris adopted an emerging lobbying tactic:
build support among a lawmaker's constituents to supplement the
traditional glad-handing of elected officials with dinners and campaign
donations.

Mr. Morris contracted consultants who promoted news stories that
stoked fears about an avian-flu outbreak. The goal was to sell more
Tamiflu.

In October 2005, 32 Democratic senators wrote a letter to President
George W. Bush expressing their 'grave concern that the nation is
dangerously unprepared for the serious threat of avian influenza.'

Within weeks, Mr. Bush created an emergency stockpile of avian flu
treatments that eventually included more than $1 billion worth of
Tamiflu pills. His administration offered subsidies that led to millions
of dollars of additional Tamiflu sales to state governments."

Reported Flu Deaths — Another Giant PR Sham

While we're on the topic of fearmongering to boost corporate profits, a paper4
published in the BMJ in 2005 by Peter Doshi deserves a second look. In
it, Doshi argues U.S. flu death figures are based more on PR mandates
than actual science.

"U.S. data on influenza deaths are a mess," he writes. "The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges a
difference between flu death and flu associated death yet uses the terms
interchangeably.

Additionally, there are significant statistical incompatibilities
between official estimates and national vital statistics data.
Compounding these problems is a marketing of fear…"

According to the CDC, about 36,000 Americans die from influenza each
year. This statistic is reiterated by most mainstream media sources and
government health officials, thereby impressing you with the suggestion
that if you or someone you care about gets influenza, you are likely to
die from it.
The answer, they say, is to make sure you get vaccinated at the onset of flu season each and every year.
Rarely does anyone question this 36,000-annual flu death number. But
everyone really should. As noted by Doshi, the "CDC states that the
historic 1968-9 "Hong Kong flu" pandemic killed 34,000 Americans. At the
same time, CDC claims 36,000 Americans annually die from flu. What is
going on?"
Indeed, is the annual death toll from influenza really GREATER than
the well documented 1968-69 influenza pandemic? The answer is no, and
Doshi goes on to reveal a number of statistical tricks used to
artificially inflate influenza death numbers.

How Influenza Death Numbers Are Inflated

For starters, the CDC bundles influenza and pneumonia deaths
together, even though influenza is by far not the sole cause of
pneumonia. To quote Doshi:

"David Rosenthal, director of Harvard University Health Services,
said, 'People don't necessarily die, per se, of the [flu] virus … What
they die of is a secondary pneumonia. So many of these pneumonias are
not viral pneumonias but secondary [pneumonias].'

But … Rosenthal agreed that the flu/pneumonia relationship was not unique. For instance, a recent study5…
found that stomach acid suppressing drugs are associated with a higher
risk of community acquired pneumonia, but such drugs and pneumonia are
not compiled as a single statistic."

In other words, anyone dying from pneumonia — whether contracted as a
result of influenza infection, post-surgical complication, the side
effect of acid blocker use or any other reason — end up being reported
as a "flu death." When you separate out pneumonia deaths, you end up
with a very different picture of influenza mortality:

"[A]ccording to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS), 'influenza and pneumonia' took 62,034 lives in 2001 — 61,777 of
which were attributed to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases
was flu virus positively identified.

Between 1979 and 2002, NCHS data show an average 1,348 flu deaths per year (range 257 to 3006)," Doshi writes, adding:

"The NCHS data would be compatible with CDC mortality estimates
if about half of the deaths classed by the NCHS as pneumonia were
actually flu initiated secondary pneumonias.

But the NCHS criteria indicate otherwise: 'Cause-of-death
statistics are based solely on the underlying cause of death... defined
by WHO as `the disease or injury which initiated the train of events
leading directly to death.'"

This Year Only 10 Percent of Flu-Like Illnesses Caused by Influenza A or B

It's also worth noting that only 10 to 30 percent of flu-like
respiratory illnesses at any point in a given flu season are actually
caused by influenza type A or B,6 which is what the flu shot is supposed to prevent.
As Barbara Loe Fisher at the National Vaccine Information Center
points out, "According to a recently released CDC report, in this
2016-2017 flu season the odds are only about one in 10 that flu like
illness symptoms are, in fact, caused by type A or B influenza.
Between
October and February 2017, out of nearly 393,000 respiratory illness
lab specimens tested in the U.S., only about 38,000 cases – or 10
percent - were positive for type A or B influenza."7

There are more than 200 types of viruses that cause respiratory flu like symptoms,8 in addition to illness caused by bacteria,9 but they are not included in the influenza vaccine.
If the flu shot only works from zero to less than 50 percent of the
time and most of the flu like illness in any given flu season is not
caused by type A or B influenza, the scientific evidence is simply not
there for the government to order every child and adult in America to
get the flu shot.
It is hardly a public health calamity warranting the vaccination of
hundreds of millions of people on an annual basis. Which is precisely
the point. As noted by Doshi, the CDC is "working in manufacturers'
interest by conducting campaigns to increase flu vaccination."

CDC's 'Recipe' for Generating Vaccine Demand

Doshi's 2005 paper further reveals some of the content of a slide
presentation given by Glen Nowak, then-acting director of media
relations at the CDC. Nowak gave the presentation at the National
Influenza Vaccine Summit in 2004, co-sponsored by the CDC and the
American Medical Association (AMA). In a nutshell, Nowak's presentation
focused on how to use the media to create fear and anxiety to promote
vaccination and increase vaccine uptake in the U.S.
A section of his presentation titled "Getting Ready for 2004-2005:
Lessons (Re-) Learned [Including the Seven-Step Recipe for Generating
Interest in, and Demand for, Flu (or any other) Vaccination]" — which
has since been removed from the AMAs website, where it was originally
posted, but parts of which can be viewed in a recent article by J.B.
Handley, co-founder of Generation Rescue,10 — included the following ingredients:11,12,13

Publishing media articles and reports saying "that influenza is
causing severe illness and/or affecting lots of people, helping foster
the perception that many people are susceptible to a bad case of
influenza" and "framing of the flu season in terms that motivate
behavior (e.g., as 'very severe,' 'more severe than last or past years,'
'deadly')"

Overall, Nowak's point was that "heightened concern, anxiety and
worry" drives demand for the influenza vaccine and other vaccines. The
CDC sure does seem to be doing its part in promulgating this
fearmongering. Some doctors are also playing their part and appear to
follow Nowak's "recipe" to the T.14

Hyperbole Over 'Dangerous Anti-Vaxxers' Grows

An offshoot of this fearmongering aimed at generating vaccine demand is
the public shaming and demonization of so-called "anti-vaxxers" — most
of whom are parents who have actually vaccinated their children and are
simply trying to get to the bottom of why their child's health or
behavior suddenly changed following one or more of those vaccinations.
Doshi was a graduate student when he wrote the 2005 BMJ paper
questioning U.S. annual influenza mortality figures. He's now an
associate editor of The British Medical Journal (BMJ). In an article
published in the BMJ on February 7, 2017, Doshi addresses medical
journalists who write about vaccines. Well worth reading in its
entirety, it reads, in part:15

"Good journalism on this topic will require abandoning current
practices of avoiding interviewing, understanding, and presenting
critical voices out of fear that expressing any criticism amounts to
presenting a "false balance" that will result in health scares.

It does matter if the vast majority of doctors or scientists agree
on something. But medical journalists should be among the first to
realize that while evidence matters, so too do the legitimate concerns
of patients. And if patients have concerns, doubts, or suspicions — for
example, about the safety of vaccines, this does not mean they are
"anti-vaccine."

… approaches that label anybody and everybody who raises
questions about the right headedness of current vaccine policies … as
"anti-vaccine" fail on several accounts … Contrary to the suggestion …
that vaccines are risk free … the reality is that officially sanctioned
written medical information on vaccines is … filled with information
about common, uncommon, and unconfirmed but possible harms.

Medical journalists have an obligation to the truth. But
journalists must also ensure that patients come first, which means a
fresh approach to covering vaccines. It's time to listen — seriously and
respectfully — to patients' concerns, not demonize them."

Conflicts of Interest at the CDC Threaten Your Health

The fact that the CDC is in charge of not only recommending and
promoting mandatory use of vaccines but also monitoring vaccine safety
is a significant conflict of interest. In 2006, two members of Congress —
Representatives Dave Weldon and Carolyn Maloney — tried to address the
problem by introducing a bill that would give the responsibility of
vaccine safety to an independent agency within the Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS).16

"There's an enormous inherent conflict of interest within the CDC
and if we fail to move vaccine safety to a separate independent office,
safety issues will remain a low priority and public confidence in
vaccines will continue to erode," Weldon said.

The bill went nowhere, and public confidence in the CDC has indeed
continued to erode with each passing year. In 2011, the National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC) issued a public comment to the National
Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) recommending overhaul of the U.S. vaccine
safety system, including the creation of an independent vaccine safety
monitoring agency modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB) and Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC). 17
In 2014, NVIC issued a press release renewing its two decade long
call for removal of vaccine safety oversight from DHHS. NVIC co-founder
and president Barbara Loe Fisher said:

The CDC has also racked up an embarrassing number of scandals in the
last couple of years, with whistleblowers saying the agency is "shaped
by outside parties and rogue interests" and that data destruction and
fraudulent reporting has been used to hide autism links and rises in
prevalence.
One of the researchers whose work was used to exonerate thimerosal's
role in autism also turned fugitive, accused of embezzling vaccine
research funds. A January 19 article by JB Handley gives the details on
these and several other CDC scandals.19

Recent Studies Link Vaccines to Mental/Emotional Disorders

In related news, research published on January 19, 2017, found "a
significant relationship" between mercury exposure from
thimerosal-containing vaccines and the subsequent risk of emotional
disturbance, based on data obtained from the Vaccine Safety Datalink
(VSD) database.20
Another study21,22
published that same day in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry found
some vaccines increased the risk of certain psychiatric disorders. Using
information from health insurance claims, the researchers found that
patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa were more likely than controls
to have received a vaccination in the previous three months.
Anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorder were also
associated with influenza vaccination in the past 3, 6 and 12 months.
According to the authors:

"This pilot epidemiologic analysis implies that the onset of some
neuropsychiatric disorders may be temporally related to prior
vaccinations in a subset of individuals. These findings warrant further
investigation, but do not prove a causal role of antecedent infections
or vaccinations in the pathoetiology of these conditions."

This doesn't entirely surprise me. A long list of studies looking at
aluminum adjuvants in vaccines suggest it can induce neurodegenerative
changes and is associated with an array of neurotoxic and neurological
adverse effects.23,24,25,26,27,28
Here, the naysayers don't have a leg to stand on, as the FDA actually set the limit on the amount of aluminum
allowed in vaccines based on the amount required to boost vaccine
effectiveness. No safety studies were performed at all. The FDA simply
assumed it was safe. Today, ample evidence suggests otherwise.

Vaccine Contaminants — Another Safety Hazard

Other recent research points out another potential vaccine hazard —
metal debris and biological contaminants. Remarkably, the study
conducted by researchers in Italy found these kinds of contaminants in
every single human vaccine tested.29 According to environmental protection activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,30
these findings "should have profound and immediate impact on public
health policies and vaccine industry procedures around the globe."
In all, 43 samples of 30 different vaccines were tested using an
environmental scanning electron microscope, and were found to contain
contaminants such as:

"The particles, be they isolated, aggregated or clustered, are not
supposed to be there. … Our tissues perceive these foreign bodies as
potential enemies. The biological reactions are expected to be fairly
complicated, with macrophages that try to engulf them the way they do
normally with bacteria and parasites to form a protein corona.

Unfortunately, though, the particles we found in vaccines, are
not biodegradable. So, all the macrophages' efforts will be useless, and
depending on the exact chemicals involved, the particles may be
especially toxic. Cytokines and pro-inflammatory substances in general
are released and granulated tissue forms, enveloping the particles. This
provokes inflammation which, in the long run, if locally persistent, is
known to be a precursor to cancer."

Infections During Pregnancy May Raise Autism Risk

Another recent study31
highlights the danger of stimulating the immune system of a pregnant
woman. Women with active genital herpes infections during the early
stage of pregnancy were twice as likely to give birth to a child with
autism, compared to those without infection. As noted by NBC News, "The
findings … add to evidence that inflammation during pregnancy may affect
the brain of a developing fetus."
According to Dr. Ian Lipkin, an epidemiologist and infectious disease
expert and lead author, the damage is likely caused by inflammatory
chemicals crossing the placenta, thereby impacting the baby's brain
development. Previous research has also shown that women who came down
with the flu during pregnancy were twice as likely to have an autistic
child. Those who had a fever lasting for one week or longer had three
times the risk.
What's not mentioned is the fact that vaccines do the very same thing —
they stimulate the immune system and produce an inflammatory response,
including in women who are given a flu shot and/or a Tdap shot while
they are pregnant. A 2008 article by Dr. Russell Blaylock explains the danger of excessive vaccination during brain development.
So why are pregnant women told to get vaccinated during pregnancy when
there's no sound scientific evidence showing it's safe to do so?32

There's No Escaping the Vaccine Safety Discussion

There are staunch mandatory vaccination proponents who would like you to
believe that the vaccine safety science is in and the vaccine safety
debate has long since been settled. They're wrong. Very wrong.
In fact, the "debate" about vaccine safety science has not even strictly
begun. There are huge gaps in the knowledge base in part due to the
fact that well designed comparative studies of health outcomes in
vaccinated and unvaccinated persons have not yet been conducted to draw
credible scientific conclusions about long-term safety.
However, there have been compelling indications of harm for a long time. For example, studies have shown the flu vaccine weakens the immune system, making children more susceptible to more severe illness by hampering the development of certain types of immunity.33
A recent article by journalist Jeremy Hammond does an excellent job of
distilling the problem facing unquestioning vaccine proponents:34

"In a recent The Washington Post op-ed, pediatrician Daniel
Summers argues that when it comes to the safety and efficacy of
vaccines, there's nothing to debate … Yet his own arguments illustrate
why he's wrong and why there is indeed a debate to be had. So why is he
so afraid of having it?

Dr. Summers actually answers this question for us with some
comments that explain his own demonstrable confirmation bias (the
tendency to accept facts that support his own position while ignoring
facts that contradict it). He writes:

'If vaccines genuinely cause autism like their opponents claim,
one of two things must be true of pediatricians like me who administer
them. Either we are too incompetent to discern the relationship between
the two, or we are too monstrous to care. One cannot believe that autism
is related to vaccination without simultaneously indicting the
overwhelming majority of physicians, nurses and other medical providers
in this country.'

So there you have it. If his view was shown to be wrong, it would
demonstrate that either he's incompetent or he's evil. It's only
natural that we can expect Summers, then, to be accepting of science
that supports his view while dismissive of science that contradicts it."

As a doctor, I can empathize with this psychological conundrum. It's a
terrible feeling to realize that, at some point in your life, you didn't
have the knowledge you should have had and you led your patients the
wrong way.
But I can also attest to the fact that, if you are a physician, you
can admit your mistake and correct course and it will not destroy you or
your medical practice. On the contrary, it inspires trust in your
patients. And when it comes to vaccines, a course correction by adopting
a new approach is not only necessary but inevitable.

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